James malings and william muckle



(No Model.)

J. MALINGS & W, MUOKLE. GAME AND APPLIANCES THEREFOR.

No. 424,322. Patented Mar. 25, 18900 N. PETERS, Pnola-Lilhum hor, washin mn. D. (2,

UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

JAMES MALINGS AND WILLIAM MUCKLE, OF OOLVVIOH, COUNTY OF KENT, ENGLAND.

. GAME AND APPLIANCES THEREFOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,322, dated March 25, 1890. Application filed November 13, 1889. Serial No. 330.153. (No model.) Patented in England geptember 3, 1889, No.13,88l'i.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JAMES MALINGS and \VILLIAM MUCKLE, manufacturers, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at 1 Lower Wood Street, WVoolwich, in the county of Kent, England, have invented a certain new Game and Appliances Therefor, (for which we have obtained Letters Patent in Great Britain, No. 13,886, hearing date September 3,

to 1889,) of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a new game to be played with bats, balls, or shuttle-cocks and nets, and which game we intend to call F The r 5 Game of Lawn-Pockets.

The invention consists in the game apparatus hereinafter described and claimed.

In order that our said invention may be particularly described and ascertained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the game apparatus as set up for playing. Fig. 2 is an end view of the upper part of one of the standards, and Fig. 3 is a side view of the same with a portion of the horizontal bar and net attached. Fig. 4 is a View of bats and balls employed in the game.

a a are the standards, which are preferably made in two parts, with a joint at Z), for convenience in packing the same.

0 c are the movable cross-bars for extending the net. These bars pass through holes 3 5 made in the standards.

cl is the horizontal bar extending from one standard to the other, and preferably made in three parts jointed together and entering suitable sockets in each standard.

cases dispense with the guy-ropes shown on the drawings.

The net is attached to the longitudinal The net is formed in three parts united bar and to the transverse bars in such a manner that it forms a longitudinal pocket 011 each side of the horizontal bar.

Ordinary lawn-tennis balls, shuttle-cocks, or other articles used for similar purposes may be used in playing this new game, and two kinds of bats may be used. One of these bats Z is of pear shape, with an ordinary handle and made of Wood, the blade being perforated withafew holes. The other bat m is of similar shape, and has a circle of gut in the center.

The standards and horizontal bar are jointed for conveniencein packing away and transport.

In playing the game two or more players stand on opposite sides of the apparatus.

Each player serves the ball or shuttle-cock to his opponent, who then strikes it with the object of getting it into the pocket on his own side.

This apparatus may be so modified as to adapt it to either outdoor or indoor exercise.

to claim I 1. A game apparatus comprising bats and balls and the festooned nets 9 h, separated by a vertical division-net f, and supported at their ends by standards, substantially as described.

2. In a game apparatus, the combination of the several appliances, consisting of standards a a, movable cross bars 0 c, movable horizontal bar (1, division-net f, festooned nets 9 71, forming pockets and tension-cords 7a 70, substantially as described.

3. In a game apparatus, the combination, with the nets f g h, of the jointed standards a, provided with movable cross-bars c and the jointed horizontal bar (Z, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set. our hands this 29th day of October, 1889.

JAMES MALINGS. .VILLIAM MUOKLE.

it'nesses to the signature of James Ma'- lings:

Gno. J. B. FRANKLIN, G. W. WnsTLEY. Witnesses to the signature of \Villiam Muckle:

GEO. J. B. FRANKLIN, T. J. OSMAN. 

